Who doesn't love candy hearts? Sweet activity to work on finger strengthening, hand strengthening, endurance, color recognition, scanning, and matching. You can even ditch the tongs and focus on pincer grasp or in-hand manipulation!

Roll the dice and stack the pizza erasers on top of each other using the tongs! Works on finger strengthening, endurance, grading movements, dexterity, and counting. You can also roll and sort the erasers back into containers and see which container gets the most pizza love!

4. Candy Heart Stack n' Sort

Materials:
- Candy heart mini erasers - $1
- Tongs

These candy heart mini erasers are perfect for stacking and sorting. Use the tongs to pick up each eraser and make a pile for each color! Love how simple and sweet this activity is.

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Handwriting Packet made by a pediatric occupational therapist

These are some very common writing problems in my elementary aged students. Works on them being able to recognize and correct their writing mistakes, including:
- Letter sizing
- Letter height
- Letter spacing
- Word spacing
- Line orientation
- Letter reversals

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Materials:
- Mini Erasers ($1 for 60 pack from Target)
- Tongs/TweezersObjective:
- Use the tongs to pick up each snowman and stack them on top of each other
- Sort them into different piles according to the color on the snowman's hat
- Try to make the highest tower without the snowman falling down
- Can work on simple sorting, fine motor control, grading of movements, fine motor strengthening and endurance, crossing midline

Objective:
- Place candy canes into the container according to each color
- Works on simple sorting skills
- Can use tongs or tweezers for fine motor strengthening and fine motor control
-Can have them work on in-hand manipulation skills: palm to digit translation

Directions:
- Use a scissor to cut out slots on the lids of the plastic containers (I found that poking a hole first was the best way to prevent the lid from cracking)
- Trace the top of the lid onto colored paper and cut it out
- Glue onto the top of the lid

RED NOSE REINDEER ACTIVITY Materials:

- Brown construction paper

- Plain white scrap paper

- Scissors, glue

-Tape, markers

-Pompoms ($1)

-Squeezing tool ($1)

(I'm actually using a nose sucker device for infants! - Can also use a turkey baster or a squirt bottle) Objective:
- Use the squeezer to puff the red pompoms into the reindeer's nose
-Works on hand strengthening, hand endurance, fine motor coordination